And I will be very short.
I'm a farmer, just like my colleague here. And my problem with this whole thing is that I want farmers to continue to have the choice to keep their own seed. But at the same time, I recognize the importance of research and what have you to improve varieties.
Just so I'm clear here, Ms. Dewar, you say that the farmers will still have that emphasis. I want to be assured that the same emphasis and effort is going to be put in by the seed companies to keep up the research for new things, but that at the same time we will still have the quality being raised and the choices that I want to keep or don't want to keep as a farmer.
I'm getting mixed messages from you, Mrs. Steinbrecher, as well--or from the two of you--on cross-pollination. And I guess I'm having a hard time accepting that, because I know that for corn and, as James mentioned, flax, it isn't a problem. I would have to have something more that actually shows me as a farmer and as a politician that there is going to be negative cross-pollination. I just don't see it.